Hiroko Machida Movies

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

Tatsuya Kakurai, a young mahjong player from Shinjuku; Satsuki, an office worker and player from Marunouchi; the veteran "Demon" Nagamasa; Awano, a...

Kenta, an orphan, heads to Tokyo to find his father.

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats...

A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.

A young man who is ostracized by society because his older brother has a criminal record—a situation that even threatens his marriage—is...

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

A kind-hearted medical student, an ill-fated young woman, an innocent young lady in a school uniform, and a medical student whose rational beauty...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice...

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

A melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during...